Gerard Steenson

Gerard Steenson (1957-14 March 1987) was an Irish People's Liberation Organization (IPLO) leader during The Troubles.

Biography
Gerard Steenson was born in West Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland to a Catholic and Irish republican family in 1957. He joined the Official IRA in 1972 at the age of 14, and he joined the Irish National Liberation Army two years later. In 1975, he killed OIRA Belfast leader Billy McMillen, and he became known as "Doctor Death" for accomplishing numerous assassinations during The Troubles. In 1986, Steenson and Jimmy Brown founded the Irish People's Liberation Organization with the goal of wiping out the corrupt INLA and Irish Republican Socialist Party, and Steenson and a fellow IPLO volunteer were ambushed and killed by an INLA active unit while driving along Springhill Avenue in Ballymurphy, Belfast.